Umberto Eco

Barnes & Noble is in trouble. Holiday sales were disappointing, down 10.9 percent over last year. Even the Nook is struggling, unit sales also down over 10 percent from a year ago. And Publishers Weekly recently reported on a dispute over terms between Barnes & Noble and Simon & Schuster. It's somewhere between possible and probable that Barnes & Noble stores will go the way of Borders within the very foreseeable future, and the American landscape will be bereft of big box bookstores. -------------------- This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. Click here to...

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